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CONFESSION #0371 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Showed a vacant flip yesterday and the lockbox code the listing agent gave me was wrong. Tried it four times while my buyers stood there in the heat. Called the agent, no answer. Texted, nothing. So now we're just... standing in the driveway like idiots.
Finally got through to their assistant who gave me a different code which ALSO didn't work, and at this point my buyers are looking at me like I'm incompetent, which, fine, maybe I am, but this isn't my fault.
Then the neighbor comes out. Older guy, no shirt, just vibing on his porch. Starts telling my buyers unprompted that the house flooded twice last year and the previous owners ran some kind of unlicensed daycare out of the garage. My buyers are nodding along like they're getting the real scoop.
Never did get inside. Listing agent finally texted back two hours later saying "oh yeah we changed the locks Tuesday, forgot to update the system lol"
lol
My buyers want to see it rescheduled for Saturday and honestly I might just be sick that day
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED INCOMPETENCE ABSORPTION AND FAILURE TO FLEE A HOSTILE DRIVEWAY SITUATION
The Court is APOPLECTIC at this cavalcade of professional humiliation, and yet The Court must ask — why did you stand there FOUR TIMES punching in the wrong code like a desperate contestant on some sort of real estate game show where the prize is sunstroke and shame? This Court has seen many things in its years on the bench, including the landmark case of Lockbox v. Basic Communication Skills (2019), but NEVER has Reginald witnessed such a spectacular chain of failure that wasn't even the defendant's fault, which somehow makes it WORSE. The shirtless neighbor — and The Court has OPINIONS about shirtless neighbors, having once been asked to leave a community pool for "rendering unsolicited verdicts on cannonball form" — this man provided more disclosure in ninety seconds than most listing agents provide in their entire careers, and your buyers ATE IT UP like it was gospel from a sunburned oracle. "Forgot to update the system lol" — LOL? This Court does not LOL, this Court does not EVEN CHUCKLE, this Court's Roomba bailiff Order just crashed into the bench in solidarity with your suffering. You will show that house Saturday, you will NOT be sick, and you will bring the neighbor a shirt as a hostile witness preparation gift. THE COURT HAS SPOKEN AND MUST NOW GO WATER ITS GAVEL COLLECTION.
Driveway Purgatory Survivor
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